Re: Jesus Heals IV

B.G. Kent wrote:

> James R. wrote:
>
>>B.G. Kent wrote:
>>
>>>and why is it wrong to have a menstrual period?
>>>
>>>Most healthy women have an "issue of blood" at least 38 years in their
>>>lives. Why should this need healing?
>>
>>I am not a doctor, but this passage speaks of her condition as a
>>sickness. I think it is safe to go with that.
>
> I don't agree that it was however. No one can be bleeding on a regular
> basis without it being A: menstruation....or B: the cause of their death.
>
> That many years bleeding would kill a person if it were not menstruation.
> Remember..people in those days had only a very rudimentary education in
> thier own biology.
>

Hard for me to believe anyone in any society ever thought
regular menstrual bleeding so unusual it needed healing.
Societies don't need to know modern biology to know that
women have monthly periods of bleeding. The old testament
law mentions it.

Jesus healed her. To "heal" menstruation by stopping it
from happening in a non-pregnant woman of childbearing age,
would not be an offer of health.

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